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I Lost It at the Video Store

December 27, 2015 – 08:58 am

Author Tom Roston visits the Music Box to discuss his book I Lost It At The Video Store and the work of Quentin Tarantino. Roston will be joined by Keith Phipps of Uproxx, Steve Prokopy of Ain’t It Cool News, and Brian Chankin, founder of Odd Obsession Movies.

Before the discussion, you can catch a screening of Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing. The discussion will be followed by a book signing and a screening of Reservoir Dogs.

Part of Music Box’s Tarantino & Friends series.

For a generation, video stores were to filmmakers what bookstores were to writers. They were the salons where many of today’s best directors first learned their craft. The art of discovery that video stores encouraged through the careful curation of clerks was the fertile, if sometimes fetid, soil from which today’s film world sprung. Video stores were also the financial engine without which the indie film movement wouldn’t have existed. In I Lost it at the Video Store, Tom Roston interviews the filmmakers—including John Sayles, Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Smith, Darren Aronofsky, David O. Russell and Allison Anders—who came of age during the reign of video rentals, and constructs a living, personal narrative of an era of cinema history which, though now gone, continues to shape film culture today.

Pricing

I Lost It at the Video Store with author Tom Roston is open to anyone who buys a ticket to The Killing at 6pm and/or a ticket to Reservoir Dogs at 8:30pm.

Tickets to The Killing or Reservoir Dogs are $10 each, and includes the discussion with Tom Roston.

Source: www.musicboxtheatre.com

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